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2022
31-4/2-6-2022: GRONEN Conference 2022
Between May 31-June 2 2022, many S&IB faculty members (Dr Siri Boe-Lillegraven, Dr Panikos Georgallis, Dr Arno Kourula, Prof. Ans Kolk and Dr Pushpika Vishwanathan) were involved in the organization of GRONEN 2022 Conference at the Amsterdam Business School University of Amsterdam. The Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) is an open and international network of engaged scholars focused on innovative thinking in order to generate transformative ways of protecting the natural environment and contributing to societal progress in a world of rapid, complex and non-linear environmental change. Read more about the Gronen Research Group and the conference below.
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2020
01-04-2020: Students of Amsterdam Business School Take Center Stage In National Case Competition
Last April, a team of four Amsterdam Business School (ABS) students were named winners of a national business case competition, which challenged students all over the Netherlands to come up with a "go-to-market" strategy for a refugee-owned start-up business. The winning team consisted of Jozef Šaranko, Victoria Noodt, Mark Szucs, Valentina von Bülow, all of the ABS Case Society, an extra-curricular program that focuses on developing and training students' consulting skills. Founded this year by PhD Candidate, Lance J. Cosaert, of ABS' Department of Strategy & International Business, the ABS Case Society is a highly sought-after extracurricular program that is focused on developing and training second-year Business and Economics students' consulting skills. Read more
02-03-2020: Are you ready to become an expert in sustainability?
The Amsterdam Business School has recently launched its Honours Programme Sustainability. An additional challenge in combination with the Masters in Business Administration, this 1-year program is tailored towards those with a passion for sustainability and the the drive to make a difference. The program will help you become an expert in sustainability while helping companies to rethink their approach to value chains, products and business models.
If you are up for the challenge or if you want more information, visit the Honours Programme Sustainability website.
Contact: Michelle Westermann-Behaylo or Arno Kourula.
10-01-2020: White Paper - Bridging the Data Gap
Published by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the paper asks the questions what type of corporate human rights abuse occur and whether victims have access to judicial and non-judicial remedy.
Read more and download the paper White Paper.
For more information contact: Michelle Westermann-Behaylo.
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2019
23-12-2019: Wrapping up 2019
The year 2019 is gradually coming to an end. As we are approaching Christmas, the International Strategy & Marketing section is pleased to look back on a very successful year. We are especially proud of publishing in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management, and many more.
See you in 2020, wishing all colleagues, partners and friends a merry Christmas and a healthy start into the new year.
02-12-2019: Uncovering wage inequalities in multinational corporations
Are multinationals causing more wage inequality than often assumed? Using a unique dataset, Ans Kolk, Niccolò Pisane and Khadija van der Straaten from the Amsterdam Business School show for whom, how and in which contexts the multinational wage premium actually materializes.
Read more and view the publication Unraveling the NMN Wage Premium here (open access).
For more information contact: Ans Kolk
25-10-2019: ABS Unilever course collaboration
Students for of the Masters’ level course Business Strategy and Sustainability, taught by dr. Panikos Georgallis (ABS, International Strategy & Marketing Section), explored business ideas about naturalness and the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. As part of our longstanding collaboration with Unilever, two company representatives were invited to the course in October 2019.
Sybrand Jan Heeres (Supply Chain Management) and Richard Kempen (Customer Development) joined the course to share their experiences of working at Unilever, provide feedback on students’ team projects, and select the best project idea. Our guests were impressed by the students’ sustainability perspectives and offered excellent comments on their presentations.
We thank our students, as well as our guests and the entire Unilever team for helping us organize this inspiring day!
For more information contact: Panikos Georgallis.
23-10-2019: MBA students and VodafoneZiggo solve ethics and sustainability challenges together
Amsterdam Business School MBA students presented their project results during the ‘Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability’ course to five VodafoneZiggo directors on Tuesday 15 October.
04-10-2019: Plastic fishing - Team building with a cause
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the Amsterdam Business School’s International Strategy and Marketing (ISM) faculty joined forces to collect plastic waste and garbage floating on the city’s canals.
05-10-2019: Publication on food waste recovery platforms
Food Waste poses a world-wide environmental, economic as well as social problem. While some people have too much food, others have too little. Fortunately, with growing digitalization, a new actor has emerged that is helping to decrease food waste by sharing unused food in neighborhoods, cities and regions. These digital food waste platforms connect those who have food at risk of becoming wasted with those who can use it for their own consumption or as input for further processing or production.
In their recent publication Circularity Brokers: Platform Organizations and Waste Recovery in Food Supply Chains, Francesca Ciulli, Ans Kolk and Siri Boe-Lillegraven examine the roles digital platforms take in organizing waste recovery in food supply chains. Apart from the academic relevance, the paper addresses implications for business and society alike to raise awareness and fight the unsustainable and unacceptable flow of food waste.
Please find the publication: Circularity Brokers: Platform Organizations and Waste Recovery in Food Supply Chains here (open access). The article was selected for inclusion in the Springer Nature Challenges series and for an interview to reach out to a Dutch audience.
For more information contact: Ans Kolk
18-09-2019: Sander Onderstal’s inaugural lecture presents a new view on managerial decision making
On September 12, 2019 at 4 p.m., newly appointed Professor Dr. Sander Onderstal asserts his perspective on managerial decision making during his inaugural lecture. The inaugural lecture was held in the auditorium of the Old Lutherian Church in Amsterdam.
12-08-2019: New special issue of prestigious academic journal explores the role of government in responsible business
Corporate responsibility is often thought of as a voluntary activity that companies undertake. Nonetheless, governments across Europe and the world are redefining their role(s) in achieving business responsibility and sustainability. A new special issue in the journal Organization Studies examines how these roles have developed in the past decades and how new ones are emerging. The special issue guest editors are Arno Kourula (University of Amsterdam), Jeremy Moon (Copenhagen Business School), Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic (Sciences Po), and Christopher Wickert (Vrije Universiteit).
The guest editors argue that understanding and problematizing assumptions related to what governments should do in the governance of business conduct can be very fruitful for policymakers in developing approaches to promoting business responsibility and sustainability. Similarly, they call for practitioners to question their assumption and rethink their interaction and role in relation to government in developing their corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy. The special issue articles offer several empirical insights and examples across the world.
Please find the introductory essay New Roles of Government in the Governance of Business Conduct: Implications for Management and Organizational Research (open access). For questions or comments, please contact Arno Kourula.
15-06-2019: First Academic Multichannel Conference Attracts Top Scholars, Increases Collaboration
Last month, The University of Amsterdam Business School and the Department of Management at the University of Bologna teamed-up to co-create the first academic Multi-channel Marketing Conference, which brought together leading scholars across the globe to discuss emerging research on the effectiveness of marketing activities along the customer journey.
23-4-2019: Survey - The Dutch Innovation Monitor
How innovative are Dutch companies? How do they deal with current challenges such as the Brexit and the energy transition? To answer these questions the Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation is conducting its Dutch Innovation Monitor.
5-4-2019: ABS research - Does it pay for cities to be green?
Air pollution is considered to be the greatest human health risk and over 60% of the world population has to deal with water scarcity. City governments are expected to take the lead in tackling these major issues. But is it also economically advantageous for them to do so?
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2018
21-11-2018: Arno Kourula MBA lecturer of the year 2018
Lecturer Arno Kourula has been voted Lecturer of the Year 2018 by MBA students. Students were able to vote for their favourite MBA lecturer one month before graduating.
25-10-2018: Loop.a life to use MSc BA student recommendations in strategy
Circular cloth and lifestyle brand Loop.a life plans to use Msc Business Administration student recommendations in its strategy development, writes HUB Amsterdam in the article How the UvA supports our Investment Ready startups. During the Sustainable Business Models course, students analysed existing take-back schemes to determine which were most appropriate for Loop.a life.
18-07-2018: Veni research grants for three talented ABS researchers.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants worth up to €250,000 to three Amsterdam Business School researchers. The ABS researchers obtained three of the five grants awarded in the fields of economics and business.
27-06-2018: Best published article award for ABS researchers.
Three Amsterdam Business School researchers have won the International Association for Business and Society’s (IABS) 2017 best published paper award for their article on the state of international research on corporate social responsibility and sustainability topics.
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2017
03-11-2017: ABS Researcher receives prestigious grant.
Dr Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Assistant Professor of International Management at the Amsterdam Business School (International Strategy and Marketing section), was recently awarded an NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development research grant.
04-10-2017: Vittoria Scalera is co-editing a special issue on Journal of World Business.
05-05-2017: Ilir Haxhi, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Corporate Governance, publishes paper titled "An Institutional Configurational Approach to Cross-National Diversity in Corporate Governance"in the Journal of Management Studies.
22-01-2017: Citation of excellence award for article Ans Kolk
Ans Kolk recently received an Emerald citation of excellence award for her 2014 article entitled ‘Reviewing a Decade of Research on the "Base/Bottom of the Pyramid" (BOP) Concept’, co-authored with Miguel Rivera-Santos & Carlos Rufin. This article was also honoured as most-cited paper in the journal in which it was published, Business & Society, over the year 2016.